Poetry test
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maggie12399 on February 15, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 This defines what?? Art of expressing ones thought in verse, listening exprience, should be read aloud, has rythm and meaning, arouses our emotions through visual imagery,_______ is thrifty w/ words | poetry |
| Through _______________ we hear the pounding stir, the song of a thrush, a voice from history. (It is in a poem and you can hear it) | Auditory Imagery |
| Through __________ we delight in a field of daffadils, pherhaps see a sandpiper dancing across the wet sand, or gaze a heaven. (somthing in a poem you can see) | Visual Imagery |
| Syallbles can be _______ and ____________. | stressed and unstressed. |
| ________ is a set of stressed and unstressed syllables. | Iamb |
| Traditional poems have _______ and ________. | rhythm and meter |
| This rythmic quality is produced by the rise and fall of the sounds whcih suggest the ___________ or _______ of the poem. | action or mood |
| Many poems have a spectic ______ ________. | Rhyme scheme |
| A ______ ______ is a group of two or three syllables with an accent on one of the syllables. | Poetic Foot |
| When the feet are put together, they make a special pattern called ______. | meter |
| A familar pattern of meter is called the _____. The _______ is a foot of two syallables with no accent on the 1st syllable but an accent on the second syllable. (Same answer for both) | Iambus |
| The sun sizzled the swimmers skin. The wild wind whistled and wailed. The rapidy rising river rushed rampantly. These are an example of ________ | alliteration |
| A sound word. Ex. Chugged, rickety, babbled, howled | onomatoeia |
| Comparison using like or as | simile |
| Comparison that often uses a form of to be | metaphor |
| Simile or metaphor (S or M)---- blue is the sky | M |
| Simile or Metaphor (S or M)----- Fast as a cheetah | S |
| The exact orgin of these entertaining poems is not certain, but ______ became popular when a british poet and painter named edward lear published "A boot of nonsense", a collectoin of 72 _________. (the same answer goes in bothe blanks) | Limeracks |
| A ______ is an exagerated statment wsed for effect and not meant to tbe taken litterally. | hyperbole |
| _____ gives human qualitys to an nonhuman object | personification |
| A ________ is a popular saying whose meaning can not be determined word for word but by the expressopn it represents. | Idiom |
| AABBA is an example of a ______________. (has star) | *rhyme scheme |
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